After the Secret Service discovered a small envelope containing cocaine in the West Wing over the weekend, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that it was found in a “heavily traveled area” where many visitors come through.
The discovery on Sunday night, prompting an evacuation as the Secret Service was still unsure of what the substance was, dominated many of the questions at Wednesday’s press briefing.
But Jean-Pierre said that the Secret Service was conducting the investigation and “we have confidence” that the agency “will get to the bottom of this.” She said that President Joe Biden was brief on what happened, but that he and his family were in Camp David over the weekend. “When it comes to visitors to the West Wing, they come for many reasons.
Obviously we do have West Wing tours that occur here on campus….They happened on Friday. They happened on Saturday and Sunday,” she said.
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